The last American city to host a Summer Games, Atlanta, ended up better than most.

However, the dark side of the Olympics can still be seen almost 20 years later.

There are a handful of venues, now so-called "white elephants," scattered in and around Atlanta.

One is a large horse racing facility that is mostly vacant.

The 7,000-seat tennis stadium where Andre Agassi won a gold medal is now empty, surrounded by fences and no trespassing signs and overgrown with weeds.

However, there are also venues that found a second life.

The old Olympic Stadium is now Turner Field, home to the Atlanta Braves.

The stadium was specifically built so that a portion of it could be torn down after the games to make it into a baseball field.

The buildings at Olympic Village that hosted 15,000 athletes became on campus student housing for Georgia Tech.

But just across the street, you can see an example of the gentrification that took place.

A public housing development that was the oldest in the entire country was taken over by the state and torn down. Residents were sent outside of the city and given vouchers for the new mixed income housing that eventually replaced it. However, the poorest of the poor were still priced out of the complex and much of the city.

A.D. Frazier, chief operating officer of the 1996 Games, admitted that what took place with housing is a negative.

There are also two views of the result.

"From the standpoint of low income people and for public housing advocates, this was a very bad thing. From the standpoint of the city's overall economic health, perhaps not a bad thing," said Dr. Harvey Newton, of Georgia State University.

Good or bad, Boston 2024 said that it will not happen here.

"We start with a no displacement policy with residential housing in Boston," said Doug Arnot, USOC advisor to Boston.

Atlanta also saw overwhelming support of the Games through volunteers. There were 47,000 of them that summer, and the day after the bombing in Centennial Olympic Park, volunteer attendance reached 141 percent.

"(I did) whatever they needed, lunch or to move around, however they needed me," said Jennifer Maxey, a volunteer from the Games.

Maxey went on to become a police officer in Atlanta and believes the Olympic Games can bring a positive spirit to a city like Atlanta or Boston.

Even after the bombing and some people being priced out of the city, Atlanta has seen a $5 billion economic boom since the games.

Transportation is another big question for Boston, especially after recent failures on the MBTA and commuter rail.

In 1996, critics called Atlanta's transportation during the Olympics a disaster. Despite special transportation for athletes and spectators, buses and trains were often delayed, some to the point that athletes nearly missed events.

The organizers in Boston said that their goal is to make the venues and events largely walkable. They acknowledged that the city would also need a major investment in transit infrastructure.